2003–2004

Laurie A. Brink, O.P., Biblical StudiesDissertation: "The Role of the Roman Military in the Spread of Early Christianity"

David Zachariah Flanagin, History of ChristianityDissertation: "Gathering around the Word: The Biblical Roots of Conciliarism in Jean Gerson"

Sarah Hammerschlag, Philosophy of ReligionsDissertation: "The Trope of the Jew out of the Sources of German Idealism"

Ellen Haskell, History of JudaismDissertation: "Metaphor and Symbolic Representation: The Image of God as Suckling Mother in Thirteenth-Century Kabbalah"

Patrick A. Hatcher, History of ReligionsDissertation: "Conversion and Community: The Turkic Peoples of Central Asia in Islamic Discourses of Religious Expansion During the Samanid Period (875–1005 CE)"

Kathryn Kueny, History of ReligionsDissertation: "Qur'anic Vignettes of the Vine: Symbolic Discourse and the Signs for Those Who Know"

Joanne Maguire, History of ChristianityDissertation: "Secrets from the Court of the King: Nobility and Annihilation in Marguerite Porete's Mirror of Simple Souls"

Woodman Taylor, Department of ArtDissertation: "The Aesthetics of Visuality in the Vallabha Sampradaya"

Marion Holmes Katz, Department of Near Eastern Languages and CivilizationsDissertation: "The Qur'anic Law of Ritual Purity"

Carol Thysell, Religion and LiteratureDissertation: "The Pleasure of Discernment: Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron as a Literary/Theological Response to Calvin's Treatise Against the Spiritual Libertines"

1993–1994

Aditya Behl, History of ReligionsDissertation: "Allegory and the Promise of Silence: Reading the Madhumalati"

Thomas Carlson, TheologyDissertation: "Apophaticism and the Unconditional: Marion and Derrida on the Theology and Philosophy of the Gift"

Julia Crutchfield, History of ChristianityDissertation: "The Doctrine of God in Milton's De Doctrina Christiana"

Jacob Kinnard, History of ReligionsDissertation: "Towards a Dialectic of Practice: The Visual Discourse on the Presence of the Buddah"

Lois Malcom, TheologyDissertation: "Analogies of Grace and the Mystery of God in Eberhard Juengel and Karl Rahner"

1983–1984

David Carpenter, History of Religions/TheologyDissertation: "The Light of the Word: A Comparative Study of Hindu and Christian Theories of Revelation"

Leland Estes Dissertation: "The Role of Medical Theory in the Rise and the Fall of the European Witch Hunt Talk"

William Trent Foley, History of ChristianityDissertation: "St. Wilfred of York as Pius Pater: A Study of Late Roman Piety in Early Christian England"

David Haberman, History of Religions Dissertation: "Raganuga Bhakti Sadhan" Acting as a Way of Salvation"

Susan Henking, Religion and Psychological StudiesDissertation: "Protestant Religious Experience and the Rise of American Sociology: The Evidence of Autobiography"

1982–1983

Daniel Bornstein Dissertation: "The Bianchi: A Popular Religious Movement of the Early Italian Renaissance"

Joseph Colombo Dissertation: "Towards a Theology of History: An Essay on the Critical Sociology of the Frankfurt School and the Theologies of Johann Metz and Wolfhart Pannenberg"

William Madges Dissertation: "The Core of Christian Faith: David Friedrich Strauss and his Catholic Critics"

Stephen Post Dissertation: "On the Relation of Self-Love to Love of God"

Brian Smith Dissertation: "Perfection in Rituals"

Ann Taves Dissertation: "The Rise of Devotionalism"

1981–1982

Arnold Aronoff, History of Religions Dissertation: "Contrasting Modes of Textual Classification: The Jataka Commentary and Its Relationship to the Pali Canon"

Steven Bailey, History of ChristianityDissertation: "American Congregationalism and the United church of Christ"

John Barbour, Religion and LiteratureDissertation: "A Comparison of Two Essays on the Theme of Public Virtue; Stanley Hauerwas' A Community of Character and Alastair MacIntyre's After Virtue"

Gary Comstock, Religion and LiteratureDissertation: "The Text in the Reader: The Functions of Four Narratives in the Reader's Christian Moral Life"

Justin Miller, Religion and Psychological StudiesDissertation: "An Interpretation of Freud's Jewishness: The Influence of the German-Jewish Problem of Identity on Psychoanalysis in Its Origin and Theory"

Lawrence E. Sullivan, History of Religions Dissertation: "On the Influence of Mircea Eliade on Philosophy and Theology"

Dr. Noah Toly
Associate Professor of Politics & International Relations and Director of Urban Studies at Wheaton College
Project: The Macondoization of the World: Reckoning with Scarcity, Tragedy, and Risk
Read more about Dr. Toly's work here: http://www.wheaton.edu/Academics/Faculty/T/Noah-Toly.

2010-2011

Reid Locklin will be working on a project tentatively titled "Advaita Mission, Christian Mission." He is currently Associate Professor and Programme Coordinator of Christianity and Culture at St. Michael's College, University of Toronto.

Vasileios Syros will be working on a project tentatively titled "Jewish Political and Religious Thought at the Intersection of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period: The interaction of the Jewish and Christian political and religious traditions between the Mediterranean and the Alps." He was Visiting Assistant Professor at the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought and The College, University of Chicago, for the 2009-2010 academic year.

Curtis L. Thompson will be working on a project tentatively titled "Dancing in God: The Relevance of Ritual for Conceiving the Divine Today." He is Professor of Religion at Theil College in Greenville, Pennsylvania.

2009-2010

W. David Hall will be working on a project tentatively titled "Rhetorical Theology: Analogy, Metaphor, Hyperbole, and Irony in Religious and Theological Discourse." He is currently an Associate Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Centre College.

Sarah Hammerschlag will be working on a project tentatively titled "Sowers and Sages: The Renaissance of Judaism in Post War Paris." Currently Assistant Professor of Jewish Thought at Williams College, she recently completed work on her first book project, The Figural Jew: Politics and Identity in Postwar French Thought.

Slavica Jakelić will be working on a project tentatively titled "Collectivistic Religions: Religion, Choice, and Identity in Late Modernity." She is currently the Research Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Co-director, Program on Religion, Culture, and Democracy at the University of Virginia.

2008-2009

Jiangyang Dong, a Visiting Research Scholar from China for the 2008-09 Fulbright Scholar Program, will pursue a research project entitled "A Study on the Relationship Between the Christian Church and the Government in the USA & its Potential Meanings Toward China." His project focuses on a comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of the historical, religious, political, philosophical and sociological dimensions of church-state relations.

Vincent Rougeau will be working on a project tentatively titled "Faith and Citizenship in the New Millennium: Christian witness in a pluralist society." Rougeau is currently Associate Professor and Director of the Center on Law and Government at Notre Dame Law School; he recently completed a book with Oxford University Press entitled Christians in the American Empire: Fair and Citizenship in the New World Order.

Clemens Six will be working on a project tentatively titled "Modernity and Religion: The reception of Indian theories to rethink a historical relationship." Six, who will be working with Martin Riesebrodt, Professor of the Sociology of Religion, is a recent Ph.D. in South Asian Economic and Social History from the University of Vienna and author of Hindi-Hindu-Hindustan. Politik und Religion im modernen Indien.

Sarah McFarland Taylor will be working on two projects tentatively titled "Eternally Green: American religion and the ecology of death" and "Religious Responses to Global Climate Change." Taylor is currently Associate Professor at Northwestern University's Department of Religion, where she also teaches in the American Studies program and the Environmental Policy and Culture program. She published Green Sisters: A Spiritual Ecology with Harvard University Press in 2007 and has two book projects currently underway.

2007-2008

Mary Gerhart, Professor Emerita of Religious Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, working on a book with the working title, The Divine Conjectures: Toward a Loving Universe, based on what is known of the workings of conjecture and hypothesis in science and religion.

2006-2007

2005–2006

Andrea Althoff, researching Catholic Charismatic Renewal and the Protestant Pentecostal Movement among new immigrants in Chicago.

Celia Brickman, Center for Religion and Psychotherapy of Chicago. Researching modern and contemporary western constructions of religion from the perspectives of psychoanalysis, postcolonial theory, and (gender and) critical race theory.

Joseph Prabhu, Department of Philosophy, California State University, Los Angeles. Researching for book "Hegel, India, and the Dark Face of Modernity."

2004–2005

Angela Kallhoff, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Münster, Germany
Research: Working on a normative theory that provides answers to the question of why public goods should exist, using various theories of justice and democracy.

2003–2004

Mary M. Keys, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Notre Dame
Research: Completing book, Virtue, Law, and the Common Good: The Relevance of Thomas Aquinas, and beginning major research project on "Humility and Modernity"

Michael Lieb, Research Professor of Humanities and Professor of English, Department of English, University of Illinois at Chicago
Research: Researching for book on Milton's concept of God set against ongoing debates about the place of heresy and orthodoxy in the Miltonic canon

2002–2003

Dennis Beach, OSB, Associate Professor of Philosophy, College of Saint Benedict/ Saint John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota
Research: Researching the Mexican/Argentinean philosopher and church historian Enrique Dussel's work on philosophy of liberation and its relation to Emmanuel Levinas' ethics of the other person

M. Cathleen Kaveny, John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law and Theology, Notre Dame Law School
Research: Researching for book on complicity with wrongdoing, drawing on sources from a number of disciplines, including theology, law, philosophy, and literature, to explore when, how, and to what degree agents are morally responsible for contributing to or benefiting from the wrongdoing of others

2001–2002

Wilhelm Grab, Professor of Practical Theology and Director of the Institute of Sociology and Religion, Humboldt University, Berlin (winter quarter)
Research: "Motifs of the Biographical Interpretation of Meaning and the Contours of Contemporary Media Religion in Feature Films and Television"

Amy Hollywood, Associate Professor of Christian Thought, Dartmouth College
Research: Working on two new projects, one dealing with mysticism, memory, and trauma in the late Middle Ages; the other with the relationship between bodily practices, visionary and ecstatic experience, and belief within medieval Christianity

Andrew Murphy, Lecturer in the Social Sciences Collegiate Division, University of Chicago
Research: Working on a book about narratives of decay and decline in contemporary American discourse

Sarah Pessin, Postdoctoral Fellow, American Academy for Jewish Research; Instructor in the History of Judaism, the Divinity School
Research: Working on a book that explores the unique Neoplatonic relationship between philosophy and poetry in the work of the eleventh-century Jewish philosopher Solomon Ibn Gabirol

William Placher, LaFollette Distinguished Professor in the Humanities of Philosophy and Religion, Wabash College
Research: Completing the editing of a collaborative systematic theology text entitled Essentials of Christian Theology; also working on a project of theology for lectionary preachers

Brendan Purcell, Senior Lecturer in Philosophical Anthropology, University College Dublin (autumn quarter)
Research: Working on two new books: a philosophical critique of the debate on the Darwinian theory of evolution, and a philosophical context for the question of human origins

2000–2001

Andrew Murphy, Independent Scholar
Research: Working on a book about narratives of decay and decline in contemporary American discourse.

Sarah Pessin, Postdoctoral Fellow, American Academy for Jewish Research; Instructor in the History of Judaism, the Divinity School.
Research: Working on a book, Unity and Desire: The Philosophy and Poetry of Solomon Ibn Gabirol, that explores the unique Neoplatonic relationship between philosophy and poetry in the work of the eleventh-century Jewish philosopher Solomon Ibn Gabirol. Also teaching two graduate seminars on Jewish Medieval Philosophy in the Divinity School.

James Sheehan, Social Worker and Family Psychotherapist, Dublin, Ireland
Research: Conducting research on the figure of the human subject that emerges from Paul Ricoeur's intertextual approach to biblical imagination, and the relationship this figure has with those that arise from Ricoeur's work on Freud and his study of narrative in its relation to time/ the interdisciplinary character of this research concerns the extent to which a reading of these figures in relation to one another can refigure a view of the subject in psychotherapy.

1986–1987

1985–1986

Roland DeLattre, Program in American Studies, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities
Research: "Supply-Side Spirituality: A Case-Study in the Cultural Interpretation of Religious Ethics" and "The Culture of Procurement: Reflections on Addiction and the Dynamics of American Culture"

Judith Berling, Department of Religious Studies, Indiana University
Research: "Rethinking the Reinterpretations of Traditions: Religious Change in Southeast China during the Sung"

David Truemper, Department of Theology, Valparaiso University
Research: Towards a Theological Profile of Lutheranism"

Michael Welker, Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Evangelisch-Theologisches Seminar, University of Tübingen
Research: "Security of Expectations: Reformulating the Theology of Law and Gospel"

1983–1984

Stanley N. Rosenbaum, Department of Religion, Dickinson College
Research: A paper on Amos, proposing that Amos came from the Northern Kingdom and was the last Northern, not the first Southern, prophet, and the consequent linguistic ramifications of this for Scripture

William Warthling, Department of Philosophy, Niagara Community College, Sanborn, New York
Research: Post-Modern Science and Theology"

Robert Falkowitz, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University
Research: "Historical Perspectives and Condensation of Signification in the Representation of the Sacred in Ancient Mesopotamia"

Viggo Mortensen, Institute of Ethics and Philosophy, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
Research: "Myth, Religion, and Experience on the Agenda of Theology"

John Nilson, Department of Theology, Loyola University of Chicago
Research: "What Might We Still Learn from Walter Rauschenbusch?" Warren Copeland, Department of Religion, Wittenberg University
Research: Research and writing on economics and ethics; did not make a seminar presentation

David Carrasco, Department of Religious Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder
Research: Honorary Fellow and Visiting Scholar at the University of Chicago, doing research on Aztec and Mayan practices of human sacrifice within the context of the "theatre state" concept of Clifford Geertz; did not make a seminar presentation

Mark Krupnick, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Research: "Saul Bellow and the Intellectuals"

Associate Fellows

2008-09

Wu Guo is a professor of the Institute of Religious Studies, Sichuan University. His field of specialty includes Taoism, especially two Taoist sects: Quan-zhen (perfect verity) and Jing-ming (purity and sunniness). He comes to the Marty Center from the Harvard-Yenching Institute, where he was working on a research project titled "Taoism in Modern Chinese Society and Trends of Contemporary Neo-Taoism."